How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 18

Never accuse someone because "everyone says"; accusations are for a teacher to look into.

Who acts: you, everyone, accusations · What happens: not accuse, say, be, look · To what, where: someone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, everyone, accusations), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 accuse	advmod
2	accuse	accuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 accuse	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 says	mark
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 accuse	advcl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 teacher	punct
10	accusations	accusation	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 teacher	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 teacher	cop
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 teacher	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 teacher	det
14	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accuse	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 look	mark
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 teacher	acl
17	into	into	ADP	_	16 look	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 accuse	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not accuse	imperative	you not said here	someone		vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	everyone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	accusations		for a teacher	tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:adult-life:049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson:18.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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